Google plans new undersea "Unity" cable across Pacific — Google is planning a multi-terabit undersea communications cable across the Pacific Ocean for launch in 2009, Communications Day has learned. — The Unity cable has been under development for several months, with a group of carriers …

Has Google Plans to Lay a Pacific Cable? — Google may be the ultimate do-it-yourself company. From the start, Google's sense of its own engineering superiority, combined with a tightwad sensibility, led it to build its own servers. It writes is own operating systems.

Slim Aluminum MacBooks Coming Soon from Apple — We have received some information about some upcoming Apple laptops - we think they are MacBooks but aren't 100 percent sure they aren't the fabled Pro slim line. — What we know: — Black aluminum and silver aluminum (like MacBook Pros) have been seen

ABC to Offer Free Shows Online Via AOL — ABC tries to steal NBC's thunder with its own announcement. — As reported at DailyTech, NBC Universal announced this week that it would be launching a direct download service to allow viewers to download episodes of their TV shows free of charge.

The week that Big Software shattered — For the last decade or so, the world of enterprise software, which I'll define as the programs that larger companies use to automate their basic processes, has been fairly monolithic and fairly predictable. Companies installed complex ERP-style systems …

Firefox memory usage and memory leak news — Many Mozilla community members, including both volunteers and Mozilla Corporation employees, have been helping to reduce Firefox's memory usage and fix memory leak bugs lately. Hopefully, the result of this effort will be that Firefox 3 uses less memory …

The Forbes 400 — One billion dollars is no longer enough. The price of admission to this, the 25th anniversary edition of the Forbes 400, is $1.3 billion, up $300 million from last year. The collective net worth of the nation's mightiest plutocrats rose $290 billion to $1.54 trillion.

GPL Finally Goes to Court in US — For the first time in the U.S., a company and software vendor, Monsoon Multimedia, is being taken to court for a GPL violation. Previously, alleged GPL violations have all been settled by letters from the FSF (Free Software Foundation) or other open-source organizations, pointing out the violation.

Google plans move into UK mobile and broadband market — Google is considering a move into the UK wireless market after the regulator Ofcom yesterday proposed grabbing back more than a third of the mobile phone spectrum that Vodafone and O2 have been using for 22 years to auction it for new entrants.

comScore Releases August U.S. Search Engine Rankings — comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the search marketplace. Among core search engines in August 2007, Google Sites remained the top search property …

Sling Scores a Touchdown with NFL/DirectTV — Updated: Sling Media, the early leaders in place-shifting technology have scored a touchdown - they are working with DirecTV on a new offering called SuperCast. — As part of this deal, viewers can get online streams of NFL games every Sunday.

No more buys from Acer — Acer has pulled itself off the acquisition trail for the foreseeable future and will spend the next couple of years digesting Gateway and Packard Bell. — Acer reckons its integration plan for Gateway will be in place for November, with the combined company ready to hit the ground on 1 January.

Kraft Group investing $10m in a Net start-up, Matchmine — Firm aims to track users' tastes, help ads be more on target — NEEDHAM - The Kraft Group, best known for its investments in projects like Gillette Stadium and the New England Patriots, is sinking $10 million into an Internet start …

Google's stock price soars to new high — SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc.'s stock reached a new high Friday, reflecting Wall Street's renewed faith in the Internet search leader as it introduces new ways for advertisers to reach its steadily expanding online audience.

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